[Windflier]

Gun owners outnumber all government forces by a ten to one ratio.

It's actually closer to a hundred to one ratio.

There are roughly 150 million civilian gun owners, who possess an estimated 400 million firearms.

The total number of federal troops under arms is roughly 1.6 million.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I was throwing in the National Guard, all the police and the Alphabets.

The police look impressive when they are bursting in on ONE house. If they have to take ten houses they have to draw on reinforcements from other cities and sometimes other states.

They simply do not have enough warm bodies to do a mass confiscation.

When you look at the numbers and then look at the territory they would have to cover and it becomes even more of a problem.

They MIGHT be able to do a mass confiscation in TWO major cities if they throw everything they have into the pot.

But who is going to be protecting them from the enraged citizens in the rest of the country when they find out what is happening? And it would get out. There is no way you could keep this kind of thing under wraps.